Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Q: I noticed that there are two different types of blank CDs on the market — data and music. Is there any real difference, and, if so, would the quality of the sound suffer by burning a music CD on a ...

Here's the deal: I bought a ton (400+) of blank CDs a while back. They were generic silver CD-Rs, rated at up to 12X, I believe. I burned some CDs with them occasionally on my Plextor 16X burner. Both ...

Here's why I want to know: I have a Plextor 12/10/32A that's been driving me crazy until I realized that all of the intermittent Windows lockups and freezes were caused by Verbatim 10X CD-RW's. It ...

No more temporary backups resulting in failed burns Mac OS X 10.4 no longer creates temporary backups of the data that is being burned to media. This saves time, but also results in more failed burns ...

A new segment of the blank media category is spinning new sales opportunities for retailers. Spurred by the growth of writable compact disc drives in computers, with consumers using them for ...

CD burners have made it possible to combine the best of Bach and Destiny's Child on the same compact disc -- prompting grand scale consumption of CD-recorder drives by computer owners new and old. But ...